qūn

to dawdle

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Original meaning: to squat

Pictograph of a person squatting down. Based on the original meaning "to squat", now written as .

Components

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Meaning component

is a component form of .

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshwin[tsʰ]u[r] to run; to squat (Shuōwén)

說文解字

《說文》:“夋,行夋夋也。一曰倨也。从夂,允聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica